American police are out of control, 2/20

American cops are armed and dangerous, barely trained, barely supervised. They can get away with anything, and do.

After dozens of court orders have been ignored, a federal judge finally finds a Justice Dept attorney in contempt

Excerpt: Mr. Ahmad said he believed that Wednesday’s ruling by Judge Provinzino, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., marked the first time that an official from Mr. Trump’s second presidential administration had been held in contempt of court.

Me again: It is an absolute disgrace that this is the first contempt ruling.

Rogue feds will be held accountable, says Border czar and unaccountable fed Tom Homan

Homan’s the guy who took a $50,000 bribe — on video — and everyone in the Trump regime is pretending it didn’t happen.

Alabama: Officer “observed a stopped vehicle and attempted to make contact,” driver fled, cops chased them into wreck killing driver’s best friend, driver gets ten years in prison

Alabama: Police chase over “moving violations/suspicion of DUI” led to innocent bystander’s death. Now victim’s mother calls for new law reigning in police chases. Cops, of course, are opposed.

Arizona police use facial recognition to arrest and jail the wrong man for ten months

Judge orders takeover of health care in Arizona prisons after years of shitty health care

California: Over suspected burglaries, police chase kills four

Colorado man flees traffic stop, gets wrecked by police PIT maneuver, killing passenger, driver gets ten years in prison, but the cops are heroes, I guess

Georgia: For illegal window tint, cops chase man into fatal wreck

Georgia teacher killed in crash by man fleeing from ICE

Kansas: Secret Police say “We own you now”

Kentucky: Danville man with dementia dies more than year after violent police arrest at Walmart

9-1-1 calls as immigration agents sweeping through America [This American Life]

Idaho records exposed officer misconduct. Then the state decided to conceal them.

Illinois: Pickup was being driven “unsafely,” cops say, so they chased driver into fatal wreck

Maryland: Ex-police chief sets fire to more than a dozen homes, properties of people he believed slighted him, including his own stepson

Michigan: Detroit police chief plans to “terminate” two officers who contacted Border Patrol amid traffic stops

Minnesota: ICE drawdown? Indications point to steady enforcement activity outside the Twin Cities

‘This isn’t living, right?’: Minnesota immigrants share their stories while in hiding from ICE

Missouri: Kansas City police officer who killed 3 people has resigned, but will get a $50,000 payout

New Jersey: Jury indicts police sergeant on charges of sexually assaulting child he met online

DOJ admits violating court orders in immigration cases over 50 times since December — just in New Jersey

Oklahoma: Man at public hearing is arrested for speaking a few seconds beyond three-minute limit

Pennsylvania: Over traffic violation, cops chase driver into fatal wreck

Sheriff’s captain accused of sexual battery, assault in second recent Tennessee law enforcement indictment

Texas: ICE killed another American almost a year ago, kept it hushed up

So the logical question to ask is, how many more people have ICE murdered, and kept secret?

Texas: Trump administration is sending pregnant migrant girls to South Texas shelter flagged as medically inadequate

Texas: “I have been here too long”: read letters from the children detained at ICE’s Dilley concentration camp

After ProPublica published letters from ICE-imprisoned children, the camp was raided, un-mailed letters confiscated

Washington: ICE agents often ignore safety and privacy practices for detainee patients, Tacoma nurses say

99.9999% of police brutality, corruption, and misconduct is never investigated, never punished, never makes the news, so it’s not on this page.

When cops are caught breaking the law, they’re investigated by other cops. Details are kept quiet, the officers’ names are withheld from public knowledge, and what info is eventually released is only what police choose to release — often nothing at all.

When police are fired — which is all too rare — they leave with ‘law enforcement experience’ and can easily find work in another police department nearby. It’s called “Wandering Cops.”

When police testify under oath, they lie so frequently that cops themselves have a joking term for it: “testilying.” Yet it’s almost unheard of for police to be punished or prosecuted for perjury.

Cops can and do get away with lawlessness, because cops protect other cops. If they don’t, they aren’t cops for long.

The legal doctrine of “qualified immunity” renders police officers invulnerable to lawsuits for almost anything they do. In practice, getting past ‘qualified immunity’ is so unlikely, it makes headlines when it happens.

All this is a path to a police state.

In a free society, police must always be under serious and skeptical public oversight, with non-cops and non-cronies in charge, issuing genuine punishment when warranted.

Police who break the law must be prosecuted like anyone else, promptly fired if guilty, and barred from ever working in law-enforcement again.

That’s the solution.

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